N97: Nokia Gets Touchscreen Serious At Last

I've always owned Nokia phones, the user interface is good and they've always been free on a contract upgrade :) However recently, at least in my experience, Nokia have gone for the "lets stuff everything we can in to a phone" and forgotten the relabilty factor. My recent phone, not hugely advance ones the 6233 and 6300 have both stopped working and had to be repaired/replaced/refunded less than 6 months in to their life and I read and hear from mates that there has been the same problem with the N series. A rep in the Nokia shop put this down to people's expectations of the phone but if you put a camera in it and other bells and whistles, you expect them to work not to go "oh well what should I expect".

Although the phone sounds enticing and might convince me not to defect to a certain well know touchscreen phone, Nokia has to sort its relability issues and I for one will wait to see how early adopters find the phone to work.

Although I may just go for it irrespective of reviews being somewhat of a Nokia sheep ;)

be nice if it was completely the other way around - had a virtual letters keyboard and physical number keypad...I like my number buttons and t9...but also want to dabble in this phone touch screen malarkey :)

@Gordon
If you like T9 its perfectly fine. Admittedly I find the Diamond qwerty poor without the stylus. But, my point is that I like the choice as I prefer T9 to qwertys on mobile devices. With the iPhone its Apple's way or the highway.